CNN’s White House correspondent Jim Acosta is preparing to
write a book about his “frightening” experiences covering President Donald
Trump, but in the meantime he is telling anyone who will listen what a
dangerous time it is to be a spokesman for “truth” in the United States.
Acosta, who has at best a glancing familiarity with the truth, appeared at the
Oxford Union Society in the UK this week with a message of doom from across the
pond.

“Perhaps they won’t stop calling us the enemy of the people
because it works so well with their people, but all of this adds up to one
painful reality: This is a dangerous time to tell the truth in America,” he told
students gathered for the symposium.

Acosta said that Trump’s rhetoric had created “an atmosphere
where people can get hurt, where journalists can get murdered.”

Acosta has been neither hurt nor murdered since Trump took
office, but he has seen his career at CNN skyrocket thanks to the absurdly
confrontational style he brings with him to press briefings. These clownish antics
have been widely derided by conservatives, the Trump administration, and even
some of Acosta’s colleagues in the liberal media, but apparently Jeff Zucker
likes what he sees.

And believe us, Acosta is not writing a book entitled “Enemy
of the People” so that he can warn the nation about the darkening skies
surrounding the First Amendment. He’s doing it because there’s more freedom of
the press than ever before in this country, and because there is absolutely no
danger whatsoever in putting yourself out there as an elitist, know-nothing,
enemy of the president. In fact, it takes no courage whatsoever.

Unfortunately, Acosta managed to turn himself into a martyr
for the free press a few months ago when Trump had all he could take of his
rude, showboating behavior. After Acosta fooled himself into thinking that
presidential press conferences were “The Jim Acosta Show” in disguise, he
refused to give up him time after asking several questions of Trump. When a
young intern attempted to wrest the microphone away from him, Acosta swatted
her away in a manner completely inappropriate for the venue. He was subsequently
stripped of his White House security credentials, but somehow managed to find a
judge sympathetic to his plight. Now he thinks he has something to say about this
administration – one of the most transparent in history – and their attempts to
silence reporters.

The truth is that the media has never been less silent, less
constrained (by the president or by, you know, FACTS), or less oppressed. It is
in no way, shape, or form a “dangerous” time to be a journalist.

In a year or two, though, when all the hype dies down and the
American people finally realize what a joke CNN and other liberal outlets have
become? Then it may indeed become a dangerous time to be a journalist, at least
in terms of finding steady employment.